Fostering Social Worker
Family Placement Team (Family and Friends Team)
37 Hours Per Week
Grade H/I scp 27 £35,745 to scp 35 £43,421 Per Annum
Fixed Term Contract To Cover Maternity Leave – 9 Months With Possible Extension
The Role
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Salary £35,745 - £43,421 pro rata per annum (dependent on experience and meeting criteria)
We have an exciting opportunity for a fixed term full time social worker to join our family and friends fostering team.
Primarily you will be assessing and supporting family and friends’ carers which will include:
· Completing kinship fostering and Special Guardianship assessments,
· Supervising, supporting and training a caseload of family and friends foster carers to ensure they offer the highest standards of care to the children they look after.
We are a stable team of qualified social workers and a support worker who are all committed to delivering permanency and positive outcomes for Bolton children. We assess supervise and support a very committed group of kinship carers some of whom go on to be SGO carers.
About You
You will be an experienced social worker with excellent communication and assessment skills, able to work independently to clear timescales.
You will have a strong commitment to the assessment, training, supervision and support of family and friends foster carers and the provision of family-based care for children who cannot live with their parents.
You will use your knowledge of behavioural and attachment issues to support carers in their role and to work to deliver positive outcomes for Bolton’s Looked After Children.
You will be flexible in your hours of work as sometimes there will be the need to work outside of usual office hours.
About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.
Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.
As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.
For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see the Work with Us page on greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk
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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.
This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits.